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While the satellite has seen the powerfulness of guitar maestros similar Jennifer Batten, Joan Jett, Nancy Wilson, and versatile artists similar Joni Mitchell, the guitar show country astatine Mar Thimotheus High School, Kuriachira, was a tad disappointing. Among the 15 students (including an entreaty by a girl) who turned up with their guitars slung crossed their shoulders, 13 were boys and lone 2 were girls. So wherever were each the girls?
During these competitions, it feels similar a boy’s satellite retired there, says Nikhita S Krishnan, a Plus Two pupil studying astatine Vimala Hridaya Girls HSS, Kollam. Clinching a hat-trick triumph of A grade, she says: “Even during the past fewer years we had lone 2 girls. Guitar is mostly associated with boys and set culture, with astir girls preferring instruments similar violin and piano. I privation this changed,” she says.
Easwar M Madhu, who secured A people for the 2nd clip successful the festival, says that portion information of girls is seen successful sub-district and territory levels, they extremity up not making the chopped successful State level. “This is an instrumentality that requires aggravated passionateness and afloat attraction to master. I deliberation this needs a definite benignant of obsessive signifier to maestro it,” says the 17-year-old who enthralled the assemblage with Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’, Owl City’s Fireflies and Yung Kai’s ‘Blue’.
Nived P, a pupil of Vaduthala Jama-ath Higher Secondary School who amazed the assemblage by strumming virtuously and smoothly and adjacent playing the accompanying percussion beats by tapping connected his guitar, says that helium ne'er truly ‘noticed’ the lack successful the contention till now. “ I americium not definite wherefore that happens,” helium says.
